Apple Software

What makes a Mac special? Great hardware helps, but great software makes a big difference too. Apple makes tools for productivity, music, video, photos and more. Check out these great titles on the Mac App Store:

Pages is both a streamlined word processor and an easy-to-use page layout application. It allows you to be a writer one minute and a designer the next, always with a perfect document in the works.

Numbers can help you plan and dream, and great-looking, Apple-designed templates will help you get started. Tables are already made. Formulas have been figured out. Fonts are in place. It's all ready to go. Just choose one of the 30 templates to use for home, work, and school and make it your own. If you’re starting with a blank sheet, that’s easy, too. Spreadsheets are built on a flexible, free-form canvas. So you can move tables, charts, graphics, and text anywhere you want on the page.

Keynote’s powerful yet easy-to-use tools and dazzling effects put the show in slideshow. The Theme Chooser lets you skim through an impressive collection of 44 Apple-designed themes. Once you’ve chosen the perfect canvas for your presentation, simply replace the placeholder text and graphics with your own words and images. Easy-to-use tools let you add tables, charts, shapes, photos, and videos to slides—and bring it all to life with cinematic animations and transitions that look as though they were created by your own special effects team. With Keynote, you have all the tools you need to make an amazing presentation amazingly simple.

Final Cut Pro adds extraordinary speed, quality, and flexibility to every part of the post-production workflow. Enjoy revolutionary video editing with Final Cut Pro.

Aperture combines the control and speed pros want for demanding photo tasks with the easy learning curve iPhoto users need to step up to an advanced photo tool. It has been fully optimized for the Retina display on the new MacBook Pro, letting you browse and edit high-resolution images with remarkable clarity and resolution. And with a new unified photo library, you can now move seamlessly from iPhoto to Aperture — and back — without having to import, export, or reprocess your photos.

Logic Pro is a complete set of creative tools for any musician who wants to write, record, edit, and mix music. It comes with a massive collection of instruments, effects, and Apple Loops, making it easy to get amazing sounds and create amazing-sounding songs.